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The Advertising & Design Club of Canada “Directions 2009″

2009 is the year of many milestones, and for the Advertising & Design Club of Canada it marks its diamond 60th anniversary. It’s time to take a look at how far the ADCC has come and marvel at the speed at which the entire advertising and design industry is moving, in Canada and across the globe.

Crea 2009

The Crea Awards, the yearly local Quebec award show organised by Infopresse, are always guaranteed to be a lot of fun. This year, none other than Erik Vervroegen was acting as the jury’s co-president with Sid Lee’s Creative Chief Philippe Meunier. We managed to get a hold of them both when Erik was in Montreal [...]

The 2009 Cassie Awards

The Cassies are Canada’s advertising award show dedicated to recognizing, rewarding and improving the business effectiveness of advertising. The event this year was held in conjunction with Canada’s first Advertising Week, a multi-tiered conference attended by greats such as Richard Branson, Chuck Porter and an entire Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends.
Tuesday saw the coming [...]

Ihaveanidea/D&AD Awards 2008 North American Tour

‘Three Weeks, Seven Cities, And The Best Creative Work Of The Land.’
While we didn’t paraphrase our longtime Portfolio Night tagline in promoting the recent D&AD screenings, perhaps we could have. After all, D&AD is well known for awarding only the best of the best in advertising and design, and there was no way we could [...]

ihaveanidea/D&AD Awards Screening 2008: Montreal

2008 has been a pretty busy year for us at ihaveanidea in regards to our relationship with our friends at D&AD. We traveled to London this past April, to give everyone an in-depth look at the intense judging process for the D&AD 2008 Awards. We returned to the UK a month later to witness the [...]

Advertising Week V: A Look Back

New York City: if the world of advertising had a capital city, the Big Apple would definitely claim that honor, with Madison Avenue standing in for Pennsylvania Avenue, Downing Street or Sussex Drive (I’ll let the multinationals fight over who gets to sit in the White House in that analogy.) But when it comes to [...]

Buzz Marketing Conference

Blogging. Word of mouth. Grassroots social networks. These mediums and more can all fall under the category of Buzz marketing, the overlying theme for Infopresse’s Montreal conference last week. We at ihaveanidea were privileged to attend this event, to learn about different perspectives about what puts the buzz in buzz marketing.
The day started quite early [...]

Sahre, Victore, Wilker: A Workshop Unlike Others

“From the outside it appears to be a normal design workshop, but from inside it was a completely different experience. I would describe it more as a psychological challenge workshop and a wonderful social experiment.” — Davey Whitcraft, Senior Lecturer, Otis College of Art and Design
Last week in New York City, three good friends who [...]

Wild On Cannes

The city of Cannes seems to hold a mythical allure. In fact, it’s not so much a city as it is a destination. Nestled between swanky boutiques flashing fancy foreign names and the magical topless beaches of the French Riviera lies enough red carpet to keep Joan Rivers alive for another five lifetimes.
It’s a land [...]

A Very Brave Party

When David&Goliath shifted their branding last month, becoming the “Brave” agency, we at ihaveanidea were on the guest list. Unfortunately 3000 miles is a bit of a journey for a single night of debauchery, so we had Rebecca Hekmat Ravan and Aiko Alegria, two young local art directors, check it out on our behalf. Here’s [...]